Buch
Sammelband
The modern girl around the world : consumption, modernity, and globalization
Verfasst von:
Weinbaum, Alys Eve
Durham, NC [u. a.]:
Duke Univ. Press
,
2008
,
435 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Weinbaum, Alys Eve |
| Körperschaft: | Modern Girl Around the World Research Group |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Next wave : new directions in women's studies
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| Jahr: | 2008 |
| Maße: | 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0822343053 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. Modern Girls smoked cigarettes; they wore high heels and sexy clothes. They applied lipstick and face creams and other cosmetics. Adorned in provocative attire, in hot pursuit of romantic love, Modern Girls appeared on the surface to disregard prescribed roles of dutiful daughter, wife, and mother. Contemporaries debated whether the Modern Girl was looking for sexual, economic, or political emancipation, or whether she was little more than an image, a hollow product of the emerging global commodity culture. The contributors to this collection track the Modern Girl as she emerged as a global phenomenon during the 1920s and 1930s.Scholars of history, women's studies, English, cultural studies, and area studies follow the Modern Girl around the world, analyzing her manifestations in Germany, Australia, China, Japan, France, India, the United States, Russia, and South Africa. Along the way, they demonstrate how the economic structures and cultural flows that shaped a particular form of modern femininity crossed national and imperial boundaries. At the same time, they highlight the gendered dynamics of interwar processes of racial formation, showing how images of the Modern Girl were used to shore up or critique racial formations. This volume concludes with commentaries by Kathy Peiss, Miriam Silverberg, and Timothy Burke. It's contributors include: Davarian L. Baldwin; Tani E. Barlow; Timothy Burke; Liz Conor; Madeleine Y. Dong; Anne E. Gorsuch; Ruri Ito; Kathy Peiss; Uta G. Poiger; Priti Ramamurthy; Mary Louise Roberts; Barbara Sato; Miriam Silverberg; Lynn M. Thomas; and, Alys Eve Weinbaum. The modern girl around the world research group: The modern girl as heuristic device: collaboration, connective comparison, multidirectional citation (S. 1); The modern girl around the world research group: The modern girl around the world: cosmetics advertising and the politics of race and style (S. 25); Davarian L. Baldwin: From the washtub to the world: Madam C.J. Walker and the "re-creation" of race womanhood, 1900-1935 (S. 55); Mary Louise Roberts: Making the modern girl French: from the woman to éclaireuse (S. 77); Lynn M. Thomas: The modern girl and racial respectability in 1930s South Africa (S. 96); Alys Eve Weinbaum: Racial masquerade: consumption and contestation of American modernity (S. 120); Priti Ramamurthy: All-consuming nationalism: the Indian modern girl in the 1920s and 1930s (S. 147); Anne E. Gorsuch: The dance class or the working class: the Soviet modern girl (S. 174); Madeleine Y. Dong: Who is afraid of the Chinese modern girl? (S. 194); Liz Conor: "Blackfella missus too much proud": techniques of appearing feminity, and race in Australian modernity (S. 220); Ruri Ito: The "modern girl" question in the periphery of empire: colonial modernity and mobility among Okinawan women in the 1920s and 1930s (S. 240); Barbara Sato: Contesting consumerisms on mass women's magazines (S. 263); Tani E. Barlow: Buying in: advertising and the sexy modern girl icon in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s (S. 288); Uta G. Poiger: Fantasies of the universality? Neue Frauen, race, and nation in Weimar and Nazi Germany (S. 317); Kathy Peiss: Girls lean back everywhere (S. 347); After the grand tour: the modern girl, the new woman, and the colonial maiden (S. 354); Timothy Burke: The modern girl and commodity culture (S. 362); | |
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